Looks fine is an understatement - this game looks better than almost any linear game, but is open world. This is where things like 'Fallout 4 graphics look terrible' come from, because this looks incredible - look at the character graphics and compare that to that trailer and you'll see why people are massively underwhelmed for something that's releasing in the future. The game will be very good, but still should look better

It's got better combat than ES and Fallout can't see how anyone can say that those games have good combat when they don't ES just feels like your swinging at nothing and fallout is insanely clunky and feels like a terrible fps.

I'll agree that fallout and TES have pretty bad combat, but there has always been something exhilaratingly comical about swing a weapon at someone like a madman while jumping like a freak. You do not want to hate the combat when you do it all the time though. Its the reason alongside an oversaturation of fetch quests that I couldn't get into DA:I.

After going from Bloodborn to this, I have to say the combat and controls in general are much more satisfying in Bloodborn. Witcher feels very clunky. Fighting a few foes always has you locked on to the worng one. I'm thinking its better not to lock on but sometimes you dont even realise when youve done it.

Even lining up objects to loot is a chore and gets real annoying sometimes. And dont get me started on the horse. God its cumbersome. I just find myself fighting with the controls more than I would have liked when Bloodborn controlled like a dream to me.

I'm still loving the game but, I just think its a tad overrated. The missions are a bit better that most RPGs but it still all feels like Oh please kind Sir, I needs me a bucket to feed my pigs, can you find me one from somewhere? just like all other games of this type. And the combat is better than Skyrim if that helps, not slashing at paper targets so its still a great game and worth playing.

I never thought I'd like something more than the souls series, so i am a huge fan of bloodborne. It just wasn't the same great experience throughout and the vast majority of boss I could beat my 2nd try. It started off great but didn't maintain that or carry through to ng+ very well. I was able to beat the game on ng++ for the platinum on mine and my friends game in 3 hours. If they would have done more with pvp and kept some of what made ds1 so great it could have been better. Don't get me wrong, bloodborne is easily my 2nd favorite by far, but the witcher is just the better game.

If you love those games, you're going to love this one even more. It is the best open world RPG, I feel, that has ever been made. The visuals are so good, they suck you into the world. You learn to care for the characters and your actions affect everything from story, to the game world and on a superficial level. It makes you feel like each action you are making in the game has consequences, both good and bad. No other game before this one went so deeply into story interaction. In Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout... Your choices would affect a few story arcs and maybe a town in the game world, but not like The Witcher 3, where even the simplest of conversations you have with a non story related NPC, can have reprecusions down the line.

You can clear monsters or wildlife out of an abandoned town and watch people start to slowly populate that town. Bringing life back to what was once lost forever. It makes you truly consider every move you make in the game. Which also makes you care about the world around you and the people who populate it.

I don't think a lot of people really understand how deep the gameplay goes and the effect that their actions have. There are 30+ endings, all affected by your actions throughout. Both small and large. your relationships with people go a long way into how your future plays out in the game.

if you can take one thing away from this game, it is that it allows you to play the way you want to… and be the character you want NPCs to see and talk about. You start the game with most peoples opinions of Witchers being very low, but you can change that throughout the game to make an entire village love you and cherish your existence. Because if it wasn't for you, they may not be prospering or alive.

Hmm...you could probably get hired on as a sales rep at CDPR. Or at the very least, you could be the person to write the paragraph on the back of the box that is supposed to sell you on how epic the game is lol. I already know the guy that does the art on the front for most of the big games (really just organizes and lays out assets he's given) so why not?

Im usually a Racer/FPS type of gamer, This game I feel will go down in my top 10 best games of all time.

Now Im no "Pro Gamer" by any means, my top 5 games are Zelda: OoT, Halo (original), GTA3, Mario 64 and MGS:2

The feels I get from this game and how dark the story can be is amazing and keeps me intrigued unlike other open world games which dialogue is usually meh.

Im only lvl 9 but this game is AMAZING so far, Im playing on the normal difficulty and it took me over an hour last night to kill a werewolf that was a couple lvl's higher than me, until I figured out I could make a useful stack out of an Igni Place of power to enhance my fire sign, use a potion that made stamina regenerate faster, craft an oil to help deal more damage for beast, and place a mutagen for the right skills for a werewolf made the fight MUCH easier! This game has so much depth (to me lol) and im taking a while to learn this Fantasy RPG elements im not use too, but it's a blast!

Yes. One of my favorite games this current generation, and I'd go as far as to say last gen too. Not far enough to say for certain, but I'm loving it, and I really really enjoyed both skyrim and fallout. Think Skyrim and Dragon Age, but with a defined existing character, decision making that changes the world state. Super well done game man

I haven't experienced any major bugs (game breaking) but I have ran into a few for ps4 myself.

I've had the terrain pop up once like it couldn't decide what level it should be on but it never happened again and spent plenty of time there so just random craziness testers can't really do anything about--a simple fast travel fixed it for me though and as I said never happened again. That was by far the strangest bug I've encountered in almost any game ever though. Falling through the map I've seen but never had map rise up above me ;)

For most part though most bugs I've seen are rare grasses, sword, etc that float in space instead of on land where they belong but that can happen with any game so don't hold it against them as it has only been a few times in several days worth of playing time.

Lately though one of the brothels and sometimes Cleavers place has serious texture issues. Not sure if it was a patch or not that caused it or just didn't spend enough time in the city to notice. It made minecraft textures look good till they load which was depressing as everything else has been pretty fantastic till it happened.

It isn't a big deal but only spot I've noticed serious texture issues.

I love the game, there's some stuttering in the FPS at certain moments, have had a few actual crashes with the PS4 crash report screen coming up and 2 days ago I had an NPC trying to run in front of me thru a narrow door but she somehow got stuck in the running animation without moving and thus blocking the only narrow way out. Took me a bit of trying stuff to get past that but once I was the NPC got unstuck. Also had a weird triangle like shadow while nothing was around to be the cause of it, NPCs and items hanging mid-air and once it seemed the game thought I was on a different terrain height than I actually was with Geralt being midway in the ground, not noticing he was walking in/on water and a little later everything turned black on screen.

But have to say they weren't game breaking or anything, am enjoying the heck out of it!

Finally encountered a bug where the enemies would stay in pace after being defeated meaning they wouldn't drop to the floor. Then upon dying I was received with a very long loading screen in which I had no option but to quit the game.

All was well after that. For those who are curious all this happened between Baron/Ciri missions and hunting a witch ;)

I noticed the death freezes this weekend. At first thought it might be a Yrden issue (as I love the slow down) but doesn't matter if I used it or not. Not a big deal but didn't seem to happen till recently and rather it get fixed than even a few floaty corpses (mostly Drowners/Humans seem to do it).

Man ppl jus cry and moan about everything the game is playable do I like bugs? Hell no but these developers are human bugs are going to pop up with millions of ppl playing the game that's jus how it goes. As long as the CD team know about the bugs and on top of them making patches in a timely manner give them the benefit of doubt it's a huge open world game that's beautiful

winning awards and getting positive reviews means jack sh!t now days, look at titanfall for example, they made that out to be the best game ever made in the history of gaming at E3 and it turned out to be worse than COD somehow.

As someone playing this on PS4, I'm pretty glad about this. Framerate is still grossly underrated with devs who port their stuff to consoles - a victim of static screenshot comparisons, really. I'd rather have less freckles and scars on faces than Ocarina of Time-esque animation speeds.

And seriously, I know that you avoided getting this game because you heard about some bugs, people, but it's worth it. Awesome game. Imagine Red Dead Redemption with swords and a much bigger and vibrant world.

i took a screenshot of the witcher 3 before 1.04 and after. and there is no difference. its just smoother. maybe people think it looks better if the game runs on low frame rate, because low frame rate means that the game is using more power to run.

I have been noticing frame stutters every 2 seconds while running around beaches on skellige after the latest patch. Great game, but man they need to stop messing with it, i never had this problem before.

I played last night for the first time since the last patch and the game felt great. I went back to finish a few quests I had in the Bogs area before I was overleveled and the frame rate seemed improved.

I haven't noticed and graphical downgrades. It's still arguably the best looking open world I've seen.

Still amazes me how CDPR even created this universe. 20 something hours in and I'm not even close to finished with Act 1.

Actually I've played many many hours of this game and I have to say I usually don't get involved in th is crap but there is a slight difference since last patch. The pop in which was minimal has gotten worse in some locations draw distance is reduced. Also kill animations seem to not be activating as often another glitch I presume. It might be none of its intentional but items a Shane ei th error way as game ran fine before only had a few noticeable frame drops through most of main story on 1.02.

Ok this game isn't as good as every one makes it out to be. Literally all i used on everything other then wraths was the quinn (shield) i believe it's called sign and igni once in a while. I made it to level 19 and did most of everything in velen and novingrad before i quit do to way to many bugs. Never used any potions other then the boost to health regen. While playing on the 2nd to hardest difficulty. And only used quick attacks and a grenade once in a while. No oils or any of the other useless crap you were given. Lol real tough stuff I'm telling you.

The game isn't challenging. I passed level 24 suggested missions at level 16 on 2nd to hardest difficulty. It trivializes the detail put into the story and writing that the gameplay is so bland and buggy. I want to give the game a 9 out of 10 but cant. 8.5. Sad but true-ski. Not as good as skyrim or the last of us.